Background
Burchett, George Jerome was born on November 15, 1847 in Lee Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Achilles F. and Mariah (Daugherty) Burchett.
Burchett, George Jerome was born on November 15, 1847 in Lee Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Achilles F. and Mariah (Daugherty) Burchett.
Private Company G, 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 1863-1865. Student William Jewell College, Missouri, graduate in theological, 1874. Studied (old) University of Chicago, 2 years.
(Doctor of Divinity, McMinnville College, Oregon, 1899).
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1874. Pastor, Hainesville, Missouri, 1874-1875. Went to California, 1875, and built church at Wheatland.
Assisted in organizing and building 20 churches in Oregon.
President (also builder) McMinnville College, 1877-1881. Pastor, Frankford, Pennsylvania, since 1894 (also build church there).
Married Rebecca Swenson, of Chicago, September 25, 1875.